On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:
> Seriously, it's a performance issue. The current limit is in
> /usr/include/sys/syslimits.h:
>
> #define LINK_MAX 32767 /* max file link count */
>
> Theoretically you could just increase this value and 'make world', but
> you might run into int overflow problems. I certainly think that
> there are better alternatives to this issue than adding yet more
> directories to one which is too full already.
Yikes! Is this a filesystem-wide limit (not more than 32767 files/dirs
total) or a directory-specific limitation (not more than 32767 files/dirs
per dir)?
Basically, is this a limit on inodes?
Christopher Palmer
Assistant Systems Administrator, Ordway Music Theatre
cpalmer@jig.ordway.org
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